Keep in mind, I would like to officially offer a reward of $500 to anyone that can supply me with the name(s) of the creators of these annoying little treasures, and thier home phone numbers and addresses. I will gladly pay the cost of an airline ticket to pay these guys a personal visit. After which, I invite you all to donate to my legal defense.

Thanx in advance for any and all help in removing this crap from my system.

Before you start, please unzip or move HijackThis to a separate folder of its own. The program will make backups to the folder it's in. These easily get lost in a temporary folder or a folder with other programs.

Check the following items in HijackThis.
Close all windows except HijackThis and click Fix checked:

It apparently worked. it's been 10 whole minutes since I finished following your instructions, and I have yet to get a pop up add. I just wanna say y'all are gods, If you're ever in South Carolina, drop by, you're welcome to my beer and my wife. And I'll name my first born after ya!